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MARTHA A. SANDER SON, OF FREMONT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-FLUIDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,987, dated November 1-2, 1872; antedated November 11, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTHA A. SANDERSON, of Fremont, in the county of Shiawassee and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in \Vashing Fluid, of which the following is a specification:

The object of this invention is to provide efiicient means for lessening the labor of washing clothes; and it consists in a fiuid composed of the ingredients hereinafter named, in about the proportions specified.

In carrying out my invention and discovery I proceed as follows:

To one-half pint of alcohol I add two ounces of camphorum and one ounce of ggua-ammonia; then to one-half pint of hot rain-water I add three ounces of sal-nitre three ounces borax, and two ounces of saleratus. When the above two mixtures have stood twelve hours I mix them together with two quarts rain-water in a glass or stone vessel, and keep mom tightly corked for use.

This solution is used with the soap in boilin g the clothes in the proportion of about one table-spoonful to one-half pound of bar-soap; but I do not confine myself to any particular proportions or mode of using the solution, as that would be varied by circumstances. Nor do I confine myself to the precise proportions named of the ingredients used in forming the compound, as they may be varied without departing from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A fluid compound for washing clothes, composed of the ingredients and in about the proportions named, substantially as described.

MARTHA A. SAXDERSON.

Witnesses:

DANIEL W. Ronnvsox, S. 0. BROWN. 

